Now, the author has a soft spot for the tubby, practical products of Nash Motors, but they have never been the most stylish of cars. And when did an advertisement for one of Enzo's babies -- to the extent that they needed to be advertised at all -- try to draw in new buyers with promises of 30-mpg fuel economy? This was in an era of 25-cent gasoline, remember.

Still, Nash paid good American dollars for Italian design, so we can't blame them for trying to squeeze every mile out of it (a very Nash thing to do, we suppose) in their advertising. And a quick scan of 250 GT prices indicates that you could Hoover up a pretty sizable percentage of all available, halfway decent Ramblers in the continental United States for the price of one finicky old Ferrari.

Now look at this ad. Isn't this a car you could learn to love?

Graham Kozak
- Graham Kozak drove a 1951 Packard 200 sedan in high school because he wanted something that would be easy to find in a parking lot. He thinks all the things they're doing with fuel injection and seatbelts these days are pretty nifty too.
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